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ZAMRA Concerned with Media Reports indicating Self-Medication of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine as Preventive Measure Against Contracting Coronavirus

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April 5, 2020

ZAMRA Concerned with Media Reports indicating Self-Medication of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine as Preventive Measure Against Contracting Coronavirus


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ZAMBIA MEDICINES REGULATORY AUTHORITY PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ZAMRA CONCERNED WITH MEDIA REPORTS INDICATING SELF-MEDICATION OF CHLOROQUINE AND HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AS PREVENTIVE MEASURE AGAINST CONTRACTING CORONAVIRUS Lusaka, Tuesday 31st March 2020…….The Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) has noted with concern, reports in some sections of the media of people practising self-medication with certain prescription drugs such as Chloroquine, as preventive measure against contracting the coronavirus (COVID-19). The general public is cautioned against practising self-prescription but are encouraged to always consult and procure medication under the guidance of an authorised practitioner from licensed facilities. ‘’ We discourage self-prescription as the unguided...

Education / Gender & health / Latest News

April 5, 2020

PROTUZ General Secretary Kangwa Musenga backs a total lockdown of Zambia to keep Coronavirus at bay


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By Favourite Jenala Kalando PROFESSIONAL Teachers Union Zambia (PROTUZ) General Secretary (GS) Kangwa Musenga has called for a total lockdown as a most effective means of combating the global outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID 19). Mr. Musenga is worried that once a total lockdown is not enforced by the Zambian Government once schools will be opened, pupils, students, teachers and families will remain susceptible to contracting Coronavirus. Mr. Musenga observed in an interview in Lusaka that due to the global outbreak of Coronavirus the curriculum at all levels beyond exam classes has been disturbed, with pupils, students and teachers confronted with...

National Union for Small-scale Farmers of Zambia Acting Director Noel Simukonde cries for a good maize price

Business / Gender & health / Latest News

April 5, 2020

National Union for Small-scale Farmers of Zambia Acting Director Noel Simukonde cries for a good maize price


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By Favourite Jenala Kalando THE National Union for Small-scale Farmers of Zambia (NUSFAZ) is urging the Zambian government through Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo to consider to peg the price of a 50-kilogram bag of maize to 150 Kwacha during the 2019-2020 farming season. As Zambia awaits announcement of the floor price of grain, NUSFAZ Acting Director Noel Simukonde insisted in an interview in Lusaka that the union is not expecting less than a 130 Kwacha price of a 50kg bag of maize. An optimistic Mr. Simukonde says a price range of 130 to 150 kwacha will be more economically appropriate...

Business / Gender & health / Latest News / Sustainable Development

April 5, 2020

Zambia will not end poverty by 2030, predicts Action Aid Zambia Country Director Nalucha Ziba


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By Favourite Jenala Kalando ACTION Aid Zambia Country Director Nalucha Ziba says it is impossible for the country to meet the global United Nations (UN) target of ending poverty by 2030 because resources meant to address achieve the goal continue being diverted to debt servicing. A worried Mrs. Ziba argued in an interview in Lusaka that the diversion of poverty alleviation resources to debt servicing has put a strain on delivery of social services such as Health, Education and Agriculture to name but three sectors. Mrs. Ziba has therefore appealed to government through Finance Minister Dr. Bwalya Ng’andu to consider...

Cleaners Association of Zambia seek protective gear

Gender & health / Latest News

April 5, 2020

Cleaners Association of Zambia seek protective gear


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By Favourite Jenala Kalando THE Cleaners Association of Zambia – CAZ – has cautioned its 18, 600 members in the country’s 10 provinces to ensure that they are safe as they conduct domestic and commercial chores in the wake of the devastating global outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID 19). CAZ President Lawrence Makumbi says the association does not want to compromise a single cleaner working in the front line in hospitals to contract the Coronavirus regardless of a members’ geographical location. With a countrywide membership in Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Muchinga, Northern, North-Western Southern and Western provinces, Mr. Makumbi has...

Gender & health / Latest News

April 5, 2020

Kapelwa Astley Mbangweta questions PF’s double standard


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By Ashton Kelly Bunda A UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) Member of Parliament (MP) in the Western Province has questioned the motive behind the ruling Patriotic Front’s call on the Electoral Commission of Zambia – ECZ- to postpone all by elections scheduled to take place in the near future till the country is declared Coronavirus Disease (COVID 19) free. UPND Nkyeyema Member of Parliament (MP)Kapelwa Astley Mbangweta has wondered why the Party did not call for the postponement of the Nangula Ward by elections in Limulunga district of Western Province, which its candidate Thabo Kayando won with 868 votes...

Business / Gender & health / Latest News

April 5, 2020

Press Statement – Plans Underway to Distribute 2 million home-made face masks


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Lusaka 5/04/20 – The Zambian Roads and Highway Safety Group (ZRHSG) has plans of distributing 2 million (2,000,000) home-made masks over a period of 5 months to bus crews and passengers at bus stations and markets around Lusaka as a way of halting the spread of the corona virus around the city. The project dubbed “Pushing Corona Out of Lusaka” is expected to cost USD 60, 120 and will involve hiring of tailors and volunteer road safety and health experts to distribute these masks and sensitize passengers and bus crews to wear masks at all times while in the bus or...

Gender & health / Latest News

April 5, 2020

DEC PRESS STATEMENT Saturday 04th April, 2020


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PRESS STATEMENT Lusaka, Saturday 04th April, 2020. The Drug Enforcement Commission has arrested four (4) people including three professed cadres of a named political party and one (1) Lusaka based business woman in Central Province for trafficking in Cannabis weighing 133.69 Kilograms, contrary to Chapter 96 of the Laws of Zambia. These are identified as Harriet Mwape, 51, a business woman of John Laing Compound in Lusaka and three (3) other cadres of which two (2) females are also peasant farmers in Serenje district of Central Province Identified as Beatrice Mofya, 51, and Jacqueline Mofya, 20, while the man has been identified as...

Business / Gender & health / Latest News

April 4, 2020

Local Government Minister Charles Banda happy with cleanliness at Lusaka’s Lilanda Market


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By Zambian Kwacha Ngwee Press The description of Lilanda market as a very clean market by the Minister of Local Government Hon. Charles Banda when he toured the market this morning, has healed me. I am thankful to the market leadership for this achievement and I am happy that all the traders have come together for a clean market as we respond to COVID-19. I wish to take this opportunity to appeal to all the traders in the ward to continue exercising high levels of hygiene and comply with the measures which are aimed at safeguarding the health and wellbeing of...

Latest News

April 4, 2020

Lands and Natural Resources Minister Jean Kapata donates hygiene materials in Lusaka’s Mandevu Constituency


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By Christopher Shakafuswa – Lusaka Deputy Mayor Mandevu Member of Parliament Hon. Jean Kapata who is also the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources today donated 14 Foot Operated Hand Washing Mechanisms to all Markets of Mandevu Constituency within the 7 Wards of Mandevu Constituency. She said that she was saddened by the way people are dying world wide as a result of the Coronavirus. Zambia has not been spared by this Pandemic which has since claimed one life and a total of 39 Cases reported locally so far she said. ‘I have therefore decided to donate these hand washing...

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